re: #671 bratwurst

According to the FBI, in 2008 14,180 people were murdered in America. I shudder to think what that number would be without the AMAZINGLY effective deterrent that is the death penalty…we may well be at the point where it would be easier to count the people who HAVEN’T been murdered yet! ///

That’s roughly the number of people killed each year in DWI accidents. Why is the penalty for sticking a gun in a 7/11 clerk’s face so different than the time actually served for DWI?